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Unidentified artist / Unidentified photographer 
A landscape memorial to Mary Perkins Dorr and her daughter Mary Lucretia Dorr 
1838 (ca) 
  
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 
4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins 
  
Collection of David A. Schorsch 
 
LL/58929 
  
The unidentified photographer used a reversing prism or mirror to create a positive image with readable inscriptions on the tomb.
 
Provenance: Dennis Waters 
 
 
  
 
  
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